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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?

Jorge Luis Borges

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Acceptance Experience Immortal World
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Beautiful Feeling Judgement Ourselves Result
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Ideas Novel Plane Reality
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Drawing Face Man Portray
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself River Substance Time
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Choice Expense Face Fiction Man
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Inspirational Motivational Weakness
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Everything touches everything.
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Connection One Liner Touch
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?

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